SBSYNCRO
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Has anyone installed a redarc controller? I’ve got the factory 7-pin harness sitting in a box and a Redarc and I’m planning out the install but the instructions are confusing me a bit.
1. The Mopar harness appears to NOT carry the brake switch signal, only the “blue wire” that activates the Redarc controller. This giant bundle of wire and connectors all just to bring a single wire up to the dash? (Assuming I don’t care about the charging wire).
2. The wiring diagram for the Redarc (for CAN bus vehicles) indicates that it needs (+) and (-), the blue wire from the harness and also a “brake light switch” connection. Does this mean that in addition to the blue wire from the Mopar harness I also have to hack into the Jeep’s brake light switch? Ugh, why bother with the 7-pin harness at all? - the charging wire is a joke (maybe good for 5-10 amps at best).
If I’m looking at this correctly I think I will skip the Mopar harness and just use an adapter from the factory 4-pin connector to a 7-pin connector and run a separate blue wire and a much larger awg charging wire....
Am I right on this? Any experience you can share would be most welcome. Thanks!
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1. The Mopar harness appears to NOT carry the brake switch signal, only the “blue wire” that activates the Redarc controller. This giant bundle of wire and connectors all just to bring a single wire up to the dash? (Assuming I don’t care about the charging wire).
2. The wiring diagram for the Redarc (for CAN bus vehicles) indicates that it needs (+) and (-), the blue wire from the harness and also a “brake light switch” connection. Does this mean that in addition to the blue wire from the Mopar harness I also have to hack into the Jeep’s brake light switch? Ugh, why bother with the 7-pin harness at all? - the charging wire is a joke (maybe good for 5-10 amps at best).
If I’m looking at this correctly I think I will skip the Mopar harness and just use an adapter from the factory 4-pin connector to a 7-pin connector and run a separate blue wire and a much larger awg charging wire....
Am I right on this? Any experience you can share would be most welcome. Thanks!
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